Games

[Verse 1]
It's hard to maintain the masquerade
It's easier when you aren't afraid
Take apart my history and tell me what you wish for me
Twisted deep within in this disease
I hear a voice, "You're slippin' T!"
Just in time
I slip inside
A different ride
I'm mystified
When I wake up again just as blind
Tryin' to make ends meet with a misfit mind
And a distant tribe is callin' me, that's a different vibe
I look up and I ask many questions
But when it comes to the answer I'm deafened
So I ask em' again
Go to ask em' again but I'm breathless
As we march in the mess that was left out for us
Now we ain't actin' right
People havin' heart attacks in their twenties
Wait, you know that's madness right?
I don't really want to have this fight with my conscience
Nor do I want to preach this nonsense
I don't wanna be a nice guy taken for a fool
Nor do I want an ego problem
Feels tough when I only see those options
One extreme to another extreme
Lost faith in one another it seems
Sometimes it's one another we need
Sometimes it's one another we feed
With the inspiration
If you take it
Think you're wakin'
To that situation that you want to be in

[Chorus]
Hard to maintain
Hard to stay sane
You can't just take aim see everybody plays games
Hard to maintain
Hard to stay sane
You can't just take aim see everybody plays games

[Verse 2]
Now they're swept away
Gone with yesterday
I'm tryin' to rest in the present
I'm tryin' to make sense of the lesson
Defensive aggression, they don't wanna be wrong
How you gonna learn if you can't face up to the lies that you tell to yourself?
So hard that you been trapped in a cell
Life is a beach, I'm headin' outside
Paddelin' in deep and I'm gone with the tide
Turning wrongs to rights
My conscience wants to fight the nonsense on my mind
On arrival I was late, and I been that way ever since I guess
But the cycle I did break, if you knew me then you would be impressed
I wake up again just as stressed
Am I a misfit? Or just misled?
Sat them down and I cracked my crown and I spilled every thought that was in my head
And they just said "TMI, the future's bleak" nah the future's mine
Actually the future's cool, if you just see then you will find

[Chorus]
Hard to maintain
Hard to stay sane
You can't just take aim see everybody plays games
Hard to maintain
Hard to stay sane
You can't just take aim see everybody plays games
Hard to maintain
Hard to stay sane
You can't just take aim
See everybody plays games